Title: You Won’t Believe How Easy It Is To Supercharge Your Ubuntu Guest With VMware Tools!
Introduction: Are you facing sluggishness while working on your Ubuntu guest operating system? Do you wish to enhance its performance? Well, you can do it with VMware tools! In this article, we’ll explore how to supercharge your Ubuntu guest with VMware tools using the Hugo writing format.
Heading 1: What are VMware Tools? Before diving into the installation process, let’s first understand what VMware tools are. VMware tools are essential tools that enhance the guest operating system’s performance and functionality in a VMware environment. These tools provide you with the following benefits:
- You can use the virtual machine’s mouse and keyboard seamlessly with the host system
- You can copy and paste text between the guest and host systems
- You can resize the guest operating system’s display according to your needs
Heading 2: Install VMware Tools on Ubuntu Guest Now that we know what VMware tools are let’s proceed with the installation process. Here are the steps to install VMware tools on your Ubuntu guest:
- From the VMware Workstation menu, click on VM and select “Install VMware Tools.”
- A message box will appear on the screen prompting you to mount the VMware tools ISO file to the Ubuntu guest.
- Navigate to VM and select “Removable Devices” > “CD/DVD” > “Settings.”
- Click on the “Use ISO image file” option and browse the ISO file location on your host operating system.
- Click on the “OK” button to save the settings.
- On your Ubuntu guest, open the Terminal and type the following command to extract the contents of the VMware tools ISO file:
sudo tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-x.x.x-yyyy.tar.gz -C /tmp/
- Once the extraction is complete, navigate to the extracted directory by typing the following command:
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/
- Finally, run the VMware tools installer by typing the following command:
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
- Follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation process.
Heading 3: Verify VMware Tools Installation After installing VMware tools, it’s essential to verify its installation. Here are the steps to verify VMware tools installation on your Ubuntu guest:
- Open the Terminal on your Ubuntu guest and type the following command:
vmware-toolbox-cmd -v
- The above command will show the version of VMware tools installed on your guest operating system.
Heading 4: Conclusion In conclusion, VMware tools are powerful tools that can supercharge your Ubuntu guest operating system’s performance and functionality in a VMware environment. By following the simple steps mentioned in this article, you can easily install VMware tools on your Ubuntu guest and take full advantage of its benefits. So, what are you waiting for? Install VMware tools today and experience the difference yourself!
VMware player is a free virtualization software which can be used to run multiple operating systems without disturbing or modifying the host operating system (the operating system you physically installed in your machine). Recently, we have shown you how to install Ubuntu in VMware and to enjoy its full potential, you need to install VMware tools.
Actually, VMware tools are installed by VMware player automatically, but sometimes VMware may fail to install those essential tools due to reasons like crashing, network connectivity, etc. If your Ubuntu guest doesn’t come with VMware Tools installed, here is how you can get it done.
Why You Should Install VMware Tools
Setting up a guest operating system inside a host operating system using VMware is relatively easy, but managing and scaling the installed guest operating system is totally a different issue. The important thing that VMware tools does is that it will integrate your guest operating system with the host operating system so that you can do all sorts of complex tasks like sharing hardware devices like printer, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc. and sharing files and folders between guest OS and host OS, improving graphical performance, drag and drop support, etc.
Apart from all these, installing VMware tools greatly increases speed and efficiency of the guest operating system by synchronizing it with the host operating system.
How To Install VMware Tools
Installing VMware tools in Ubuntu is really simple, all you have to do is to issue a couple of commands, and you are done installing VMware tools in Ubuntu.
Note: The commands shown here are case sensitive, pay attention while reproducing them.
To start with, we have to mount VMware tools to a CDROM. To do that, navigate to “Player -> Manage” and select “Install VMware Tools” to automatically mount the VMware tools image to your virtual CDROM.
After mounting VMware tools to the virtual CDROM, a window will open showing you the contents of the VMware tools image (ISO). It will look something like the below image.
Now open the Ubuntu terminal by pressing “Ctrl + Alt + T” or by going to the dash and typing “terminal”. Once the terminal is opened, enter the following command and press the enter button. What this command does is extract the package to a temp directory.
Once everything is extracted, use the following command to start installing VMware tools in Ubuntu.
In the above command, we are using the switch “-d,” which makes the installation of VMware tools automatic by accepting the defaults. If you want to change something like the default directories for scripts, files, daemon files, etc.., then use the above command without the switch “-d.”
That said, only change the default settings if you know what you are doing because changing defaults may interfere with the working of VMware tools.
When the installation is completed, VMware tools will greet you and unmount the mounted CDROM.
Just restart your Ubuntu virtual machine and you can enjoy the full potential of the VMware. That’s all there is to do.
Leave a comment below if you face any problems while installing VMware tools in Ubuntu virtual machine.
Vamsi is a tech and WordPress geek who enjoys writing how-to guides and messing with his computer and software in general. When not writing for MTE, he writes for he shares tips, tricks, and lifehacks on his own blog Stugon.
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